(10 BOTANY. 



Aconitum Fischeei, Reich. (A. nasutum, Fisch., of my list of 1874.)— 

 2-3°, smooth below, puberulent above; petioles of lower leaves 2-4'; leaves 

 round in outline, 3-5-parted, with each division deeply lobed or cut-toothed; 

 flowers in a loose raceme, pedicels £-1', pubescent, erect; petals, conical 

 galea, and flowers from blue to purple or even white. Grows abundantly 

 along mountain streams in Colorado. (98.) According to Mr. Watson, "A 

 small specimen was collected in Southern Nevada with an unusually nar- 

 rowed galea and long projecting beak." Also collected in Utah. 



Actjsa spicata, L., var. arguta, Toit. — Flowers absent; pedicels vary 

 from less than a quarter to more than half an inch in length in the fully 

 formed fruit. There is no perceptible thickening of the pedicel with age, 

 and this I take to be the most reliable characteristic furnished by the fruit- 

 ing specimens. 



P^onia Beownii, Dougl. — Nevada. 



BERBERIDE^. 



Berberis Fendleri, Gray (PI. Fendler. p. 5). — Shrub 3-6°; branches 

 and branchlets smooth and shining, as if varnished; spines 3-5-parted; leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, acutish, entire, or irregularly spinulose-serrate, entirely 

 glabrous ; racemes pendulous, 1-2', and densely flowered, somewhat longer 

 than the leaves, which, however, vary much in size in adult condition ; calyx 

 with conspicuous red bracts, which are a little shorter than the sepals. 

 Flowers yellow and as large as those of B. vulgaris. Unripe fruit with 

 2-3 seeds ; blooms in May and June. I probably collected my specimens 

 from the exact spot at which Mr. Fendler obtained his. The shrub appears 

 to be by no means common. Santa Fe", N. Mex. (54.) 



Berberis repens, Lindl. — "A low, somewhat procumbent shrub, less 

 than 1°; leaflets 3-7, ovate, acute, not acuminate, 1-24', not shiny above; 

 racemes few, terminating the stems, l-l£'.— Bot Beg. t. 1176. B. Aquifolium, 

 Pursh, mainly, and of numerous authors."— (Fl. Cal. 1, p. 14.) I have not 

 seen the species. 



Berberis Aquifolium, Pursh. — Common in mountain parts of Central 

 Colorado. (57.) 



Berberis Fremontii, Toit. — Leaves pinnate, with 3-4 pairs of leaflets, 



